. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. *-%\UvA^ I — LINCOLN MONUMENT, SriilNGFIELD, ILLINOIS. them but one small railway in the coal regions, thirty miles in length,and made theii- way to the Northwest mostly with ox teams, finding inNorthern Illinois petty settlements scores of miles apart, although thesouthern portion of the state was fairly dotted with farms. Thewater courses of the lakes and rivers furnished transportation to thesecond great army of immigrants, and about 1850 railroads werepushed to that extent that the crisis of 1837 was precipitated upon us. T
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. *-%\UvA^ I — LINCOLN MONUMENT, SriilNGFIELD, ILLINOIS. them but one small railway in the coal regions, thirty miles in length,and made theii- way to the Northwest mostly with ox teams, finding inNorthern Illinois petty settlements scores of miles apart, although thesouthern portion of the state was fairly dotted with farms. Thewater courses of the lakes and rivers furnished transportation to thesecond great army of immigrants, and about 1850 railroads werepushed to that extent that the crisis of 1837 was precipitated upon us. THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 89 from the effects of which the Western country had not fully recoveredat the outbreak of the war. Hostilities found the colonists of the prairiesfully alive to the demands of the occasion, and the honor of recruiting [i|,,>V«|l||jl|^^li^Hl|[,. the vast armies of the Union fell largely to Gov. Yates, of Illinois, andGov. Morton, of Indiana. To recount the share of the glories of thecampaign -n-on by our Western troops is a needless task, except tomention the fact that Illinois g^ave co ike nation the President who save4 90 TRE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. it, and sent out at the head of one of its regiments tne general who ledts armies to the final victory at Appomattox. The struggle, on the
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